Chapter 285

Chapter 285: Deliberately Holding Back

Chen Xin Yue bit down in secret. She had taken care of Jiang Liu Yun’s mother for so long, and he used to call her sister with every other word. Yet that little tramp came back for only two days, and he ran off to flatter her. As for Chen Xin Yue, who had grown up with him, he hardly looked her way. When he did speak to her, it was only because of that girl.

She drew a deep breath to answer, but a clear, pleasant female voice sounded from the steps: “It is fine. It is only going down and up the stairs.”

Chen Xin Yue rolled her eyes inside, but on her face she looked relieved as she said: “It seems sister is gifted and has already learned how to use lightness skill.”

She did not believe for a second that the girl had learned lightness skill in such a short time. This was just a stiff mouth. Picking this matter to act tough was pure foolishness. In Chen Xin Yue’s mind, it was asking for death.

Jiang Liu Bin frowned and said in a warning tone: “Hey, know when to stop. This is not a game. One mistake can cost a life.”

He only wanted this wild girl to bow her head and make a fool of herself. He did not want her to die. She was the daughter Second Uncle had searched for over more than ten years. If she died today, Second Uncle would be heartbroken. He had only wanted her to suffer a bit on the Heaven-Climbing Steps. A normal person climbing a mountain might end up tired and messy, but not dead. But if someone without any training tried to use lightness skill in a place this steep, how was that not looking for death?

Jiang Liu Yun also wanted to stop her, but Yu Zhi Yi had already reached the edge of the Heaven-Climbing Steps and leaped.

Everyone on the mountaintop paled. Yet the clumsy, awkward scene they feared did not appear.

If Chen Xin Yue had been a butterfly, then Yu Zhi Yi was a drifting cloud at the edge of the sky: beautiful, dreamlike, and untouchable. Her movements did not look very fast, but in the blink of an eye she reached the foot of the mountain. They watched as her figure shrank into a small colored dot almost at once, then turned and grew again as she headed back up, moving at an even yet very high speed toward the top.

After one startled heartbeat, the brothers Jiang Liu Yi and Jiang Liu Yun broke into smiles, and even the always-calm Jiang Liu Yi showed a bright grin.

Jiang Liu Bin looked stunned, unable to believe what he was seeing.

Only Chen Xin Yue, after the first shock, let hatred and blame fill her eyes. How could this be? That little tramp could really use lightness skill? And faster than her?

In only a few breaths, Yu Zhi Yi had returned to clear view. Compared to that, Chen Xin Yue’s one round trip in fifteen minutes now looked slow.

Chen Xin Yue’s gaze turned cold. She could not let the girl steal the spotlight. Boldness burned up her fear. A hand hidden in her sleeve flipped, and she palmed a hidden weapon.

Just as she was about to act, Jiang Liu Bin looked her way and said with disbelief he could not swallow: “Sister Xin Yue, her martial arts are really that good?”

Chen Xin Yue’s fingers paused. Unwilling, she watched Yu Zhi Yi draw near to the top layer, then forced a pleasant tone and said: “It is a good thing that sister’s martial arts are strong. Second Master’s status in the Martial World is well known, and his daughter should not be weak.”

She put away the hidden weapon and said lightly, as if unaware of the effect of her words: “No wonder Second Master and Brother Yi were not worried. They already knew sister was this strong.”

The favor Jiang Liu Bin had just started to feel for Yu Zhi Yi because of her lightness skill faded at once. He frowned as the thought took root: that wild girl had hidden her ability on purpose, only to make him look like a fool.